PTERUTHIUS, 335 
streams and natural glades. It has the Tit-like habits of many of 
the smaller Babblers but is very deliberate in its movements both on 
wing or on foot. Its call is a pleasant double note—‘“ too-weet, too- 
weet,” not often uttered unless the birds are separated. 
(357) Pteruthius melanotis intermedius. 
Humer’s SHRIKE- BABBLER. 
Allotrius intermedius Hume, 8. F., v, p. 112 (1877) (Tenasserim). 
Pteruthius intermedius. Blanf. & Qates, i, p. 227. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description—Male. Differs from the last in having the forehead 
deep chestnut, followed bya yellow band; the grey nape and black 
neck-patches are absent; the outermost tail-feathers have a streak 
of black near the tips of the outer webs; the Ist and 2nd primaries 
are entirely black, the next four black on the base and white on 
the rest of the outer webs. 
Colours of soft parts and Measurements as in the last. 
The female has the forehead rufous and the lower plumage pale 
yellow. The wings are edged with green except the earlier 
primaries which are edged with pale yellow. 
Distribution. he eastern hills of Burma from Bhamo to 
Tenasserim., 
Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded. 
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(358) Pteruthius xanthochloris xanthochloris. 
Tre Grpen SurikE-BaBprer. 
Pteruthius vanthochlor#s Hodgs., J. A. 8. B., xv, p. 448 (1847) 
(Nepal) ; Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 227. 
Vernacular names. None recorded, 
Description.—Male. The forehead, lores, sides of the crown and 
round the eye dark grey ; crown and nape blackish with traces of 
grey; ear-coverts and upper parts green; lesser wing-coverts 
brown edged with green; greater coverts the same tipped with 
yellowish ; primary-coverts black ; wings dark brown edged with 
green exteriorly ; tail brown suffused with green on the outer 
webs, tipped with white and the outer web of the outermost 
feather whitish; chin, throat and breast pale ashy, suffused in 
places with yellow ; remaining lower plumage, under wing-coverts 
and axillaries bright yellow. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris grey, dark grey or grey-brown; bill 
black, the lower mandible and commissure pale blue-grey; legs 
and feet fleshy or fleshy-grey. 
Measurements. Length about 125 mm.; wing 62 to 65 mm.; 
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tail about 48 to 50 mm.; tarsus about 20 mm.; culmen 8 mm. 
